Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Harvard coaches dream of the elusive "most qualified person for the position." Some coaches invest their faith in the admissions office, and recruit little; others recruit aggressively. Some sell the University; others, their individual program. But all the coaches feel occasional disappointment at losing topnotch athletes, whether to other schools or to academic shortcomings...
Conversely, the 50-50 program would permit the free market to allocate efficiently. There has been much debate over the responsiveness of demand for gas to a price increase; but several recent studies have concluded that demand for gas has become more responsive to changes in price in the short run. There is a growing consensus that, in the long run, gas price increases will be reflected by almost proportional drops in consumption--that is, a 40-per-cent price rise would lead to roughly 40 per cent less gas consumed...
...rationing program would stem inflation both directly, by controlling oil price increases, and indirectly, by reducing the nation's dependence on expensive foreign oil. Instead of leaving conservation to the vagaries of the so-called free market, rationing could immediately reduce oil imports, opening up alternatives in foreign policy to a blind commitment to keep the ever-more-expensive Mideast oil spigot open...
...Neill added he will start a solar energy program. "We in politics have treated solar energy almost as if it has been an exotic art, and the reason for that is that it has not been affordable to middle-income and lower-income people," he said, adding that solar energy is now much less expensive...
This is particularly so once Arkin's character gains access to the media and starts laying down the law to a civilization he believes decadent. His rhetoric is garbled biblical, but his program is eminently practical. He recommends a constitutional amendment banning Muzak and fines for people who talk about needing their own space. He also thinks it would be nice if politicians, when pontificating on TV, were forced to wear party hats so that viewers could keep their remarks in perspective. The message is simple: Ye shall know a civilization by its common customs, and if these...